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"Alas, poor Yorick!" The death of Laurence Sterne
1Green College, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Journal of Medical Biography
|July 19, 2003
Abstract:
The life and death of Laurence Sterne are examined. Sterne's body was taken from his grave and soon after appeared for dissection in Cambridge. The teaching of anatomy, the activities of body snatchers and the passage of the 1832 Anatomy Act are reviewed.
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